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Football thread

I believe we once had a thread about football here, strangely enough called "Soccer thread", but I can't find it anymore, so here goes: a new fresh thread where you can talk about the Champions League, the qualifying matches for the 2010 WC, or hell even about the MLS.

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A tie would be good, but I'm hoping for a win of course. We have to beat them at least once if we want the 1st or 2nd place, so why not now already? Though we will have to do without any defensive lapses then this time...my prediction is 1-2.

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Is a Belgian victory okay for you?

I'm going to watch at a friend's house. On the way to his place, there's a neighbourhood where lots of Turks live. If we win, I'm going to drive through and make lots of noise, like they always do when they win a game Or maybe I shouldn't...if we lose, I think I'll make a detour driving back home

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Well the only thing in Football that still interests me is the national teams playing each other. For the rest ... it's virtually always the club with the big money in the Champions League that can buy who they want and construct a team, while teams from the smaller countries who have to do without the ridiculous TV-money "subsidies" could at most have one relatively reasonable or succesfull season in the UEFA cup or mayyyyybe the Champions League, before the grasshoppers in the form of English, Italian, Spanish and German clubs come along and basically destroy those teams by buying their most talented players away.

This process makes particularly the Champions League (Ehhh Champions? How many champions do England, Italy, Spain and Germany all have? I dunno, but here we usually have one champion, not a dozen) INCREADIBLY predictable (and IMHO thus boring) as you almost always see the same teams. You could virtually predict now, without one match having been played, alteast HALF of the teams that will make it to the last 8. That's just wrong.

I pray for the day that something like a salarycap and/or luxurytax will be introduced (will both never happen though) and the playingfield is levelled between the stricter financial club culture of countries in Western Europe and the much more laid back financial club culture of countries in Southern Europe. A club like Real Madrid would have been declared banckrupt in most Western European countries with a... what was it 450mln Euro debt?

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well the Belgians are up by a goal right now...even though the Turks have been the one controlling the match...but gotta give credit for capitalizing on their opportunity...while we have yet to do so...

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I'm a bit disappointed with the way you scored the equalizer (that was so not a penalty) but you definitely deserved to tie the game. We played too defensively second half, Turkey was the better team. I don't think it's bad of a score for you guys. It's not like we'll easily beat you at home or anything. Winning all our games against the 3 lesser teams of the group will be very important. Especially Bosnia can be dangerous.

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2-0 win against Armenia. Not a great game, but we did what we had to do.

A draw against Spain would be nice, but I hope we're at least going for the victory. Unfortunately, our sissy *** coach will probably again play super-defensively, like against Turkey. Also rooting for Estonia Wednesday

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2-0 win against Armenia. Not a great game, but we did what we had to do.

A draw against Spain would be nice, but I hope we're at least going for the victory. Unfortunately, our sissy *** coach will probably again play super-defensively, like against Turkey. Also rooting for Estonia Wednesday

then again...if Spain does demolish you guys...it'll just be us Vs. Them for the #1 spot...

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We at least deserved a point tonight. Spain had probably like 65% ball possession but we had the best chances (1 goal unrighteously denied for offside), incredibly frustrating to still lose then. Great game to watch though.

On the plus side....you guys lost 2 points. Now we have 2 very tough games against Bosnia coming up....in half a year.

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Bumpaloo. I have to say I've grown a bit tired of the CL. Always the same teams dominating. The Uefa Cup on the other hand has become a lot more interesting after the restructuring. There are always some surprising teams there.